Staging.



L. H. LILLGE & A. J. HANTSCHEL STAGING.

APPLICATION FI LED JAN-17,1916- tented May 23,1916.

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AlHaqTsuh E1 111L111 E 4, 3, TTORNE I LEO I-I. LILLGE AND ARTHUR J. HANTSCHEL, OF APPLETON, WISCONSIN.

STAGING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 23, 1916.

Application filed January 17, 1916. Serial No. 72,546.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, LE0 H. LILLGE and ARTHUR J. HANTSCHEL, citizens of the United States, residing at Appleton, in the county of Outagamie and State of Wisconsin, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Stagings, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention is shown in the accompanying drawing in which Figure 1 represents the gable end of a building having two staging poles leaning against the gable and one pole leaning against the eaves of the roof. Fig. 2 is a plan of a catch that is'secured to each pole for engaging a chain. Fig. 3 is a plan of an arm that is hinged to each pole. Fig. 4 is a plan of a block that is attached to each pole.

Similar numerals indicate like parts in the several views.

The device is designed for a staging for painters and other artisans upon buildings, and is applicable to buildings of any height from ground to ridge of roof up to fifty feet or a little more, and it comprises a pair of telescoping poles which may consist each of three pieces of about 8 to 20 feet in length of about 211-X l inches of light and strong timber having loops of band metal upon two of the pieces, through which loops a. companion piece can slide and be held in the desired position with a bolt. These poles when coupled together are to be leaned against the roof of a building at a suitable angle, and a staging platform suspended from the upper one of the telescoping members. The device is shown in Fig. l, as being applied to the eaves of a building and also to its gable end, the eaves having so great a projection from the outside wall, that a staging suspended from directly under the eaves would be too far away from the wall for a painter to easily reach said wall.

For adapting the device for building where the roof projection is too great for easily reaching the wall as here shown at the left of Fig. l, the poles consisting of sections l, 2 and 3, are coupled together with the band metal loops 4, which are secured to sections 1 and 2 with fastenings 5, and the sections are held in the desired position with bolts 6, holes 7 being provided for lengthen ing the poles as occasion requires.

Near the upper end of each sectlon 3, an

arm 8 isat tached by means of a hinge 9, the arm being provided with a chain 10, which extends from its fastening 10, to section 3, passes through it, and is held' in the desired position by means of a notch 11, in a plate 12, the plate being secured to the section 3 with screws 13. (See Fig. 2.) By swinging this arm from the section more or less, its outer end is swung toward the building wall 14.

A rope 15, is secured to section 3 at a point above the arm and is placed in the no)tch 16, in the end of the arm 8, (see Fig. a desired distance from the wall l l. A windlass 17, is suspended by the ropes and below the Windlass, a platform, or staging 18 is suspended from a hook 19 in each windlass by means of rods 20. The windlass is provided with a spool 21, upon which the rope is wound by means of its crank 22, and

the platform can be held at the desired elevation by means of a pin 23, which is inserted in the windlass and engages the crank. A pair of pulley blocks is within the scope of our invention and may be used instead of the windlass no claim being made for it. At the upper end of section 3 upon each pole, isa block 24, which is pivotally connected with said section by means of a bolt 25, said blocks resting upon the roof 26 of the build ing 27, those at the eaves in a horizontal position and those upon the gable at an angle corresponding with the slant of the roof.

For holding the blocks at the gable of abuilding, and also holding the pole square with the building at the eaves, a hook 28, is loosely mounted upon a lag screw 29 at each end of the blocks 24, for hooking over the eaves and over the end of the roof as is shown upon the gable. When the poles are used at the eaves, said hooks are hooked under the eaves, and when at the gable, over the end of the roof. lVhen the arm 8 is not required, it can be removed, or it can swing downward, as it is shown to be in dotted lines, and permit the rope to suspend the platform directly under the point of its connection with section 3.

The telescoping poles, the windlass and platform are known to be old.

Having described our invention, what we claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is,-

1. In a staging, a pair of poles of a suitable length for leaning against the roof of whereby to suspend the staging at the block and being adapted normally to hook over the edge of the roof as the pole is raised and leaned against the roof of a building and the two hooks upon each block adapted to hold the pole square wlth the roof.

2. In a staging, a pair of poles of a suitable length for leaning against the roof of a building and reaching from the ground to a short distance above the edge of the roof, a block of a suitable length pivotally mounted upon the upper end of each pole, extending at right angles therefrom and being adapted to rest upon the roof of a building at various angles relative to its pole, a hook pivotally secured to each end of each blockv and being adapted normally to hook over the edge of the roof as the pole is raised and leaned against the roof of a building and the two hooks upon each block adapted to hold the pole square with the roof, a rope connected to each pole at a point below the roof edge, an arm hinged, at one end to each pole at a point below said ropes connection therewith, a chain connected therewith near its opposite end and extending through the pole at a point above the hinged end thereof, means upon the pole for engaging the chain copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the "Commissioner of Patents,

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and looking it at various points in the length of the chain for holding the arm at various angles with the pole, and a notch at the free end of the arm into which the rope may be placed for suspending aplatform nearer to or farther from the wall of a building as the work to be done from said platform re- 3. In a having a pair of poles of a suitable length for leaning against'the roof of a building and reaching fromthe ground to a short distance abovethe edge of a roof, a rope connected to each pole at a point below the roof edge and having aplatform suspended at its opposite ends from said ropes, and a Windlass device connected to each end of said platform and to said ropes adapted to raise, lower and hold in a fixed position, said platform, in combination with an arm hinged at one end to each pole at a point below the point of connection of said rope, a chain connected near the free end of each arm and extending through the pole,

means upon the pole for engaging the chain and holding the arm at various anglesrelative to the pole, a notch in the free end'of the arms into which a rope can be laid for suspending the platform nearer to or farther from the wall of abuilding against which the poles are placed.

LEO. H. LILLGE. ARTHUR J. HANTSCHEL. Witnesses: V c 7 V C. M. ALBEE, V K. W. J ONES.

Wellington, D. G. 

